Essays in the economics of subjective well-being

Essays in the economics of subjective well-being

This thesis explores three major issues in the burgeoning empirical literature on the determinants of subjective well-being (SWB). While economic theory assumes that it is current consumption that matters to SWB, empirical work has focused almost exclusively on the effect of income. In Part 1, we us...

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Main Author: Goldsmith, Glenn Fraser
Other Authors: Knight, John
Published: University of Oxford 2011
Subjects:
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Social Sciences : Economics : Econometrics : Psychology : Social psychology : subjective well-being : panel data : Russia : Britain : social comparison : penalised maximum likelihood : heterogeneity : penalised Gaussian mixture model
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527311

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